Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced a global alliance with Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services Business of Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT) to establish an integrated means to execute go-to-market and delivery activities for managed services. The two companies will seek opportunities to provide a range of IT services, drawing on their complementary strengths, to enterprise and public sector clients.
Under the terms of the alliance, Wipro Technologies will work with Unisys to jointly provide deskside and hardware support services and multi-lingual service desk services for global customers.
"This integrated delivery engine draws on the complementary capabilities of Wipro and Unisys and provides our customers with a unified global delivery platform for managing their infrastructure outsourcing," said G K Prasanna, senior vice president, Technology Infrastructure Services, Wipro Technologies. "This will help both Wipro and Unisys drive quantum business improvements for our customers through improved resource management, stronger governance and lower TCO."
The alliance has already yielded a major engagement in which Unisys will be a subcontractor to Wipro in providing managed services to a Fortune 500 company based in the United States. Wipro and Unisys will support more than 20,000 of the company's employees in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
